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Proteins Decide Boys Become Boys
Sue Wu submitted, created time 6 months 2 weeks (www.sciam.com)
In research that could give doctors a way to reassign sex in cases of unclear gender, scientists report this week that they have figured out why some children with genes that should make them boys are instead born as girls. 


Genetic Link to Schizophrenia Discovered
Sue Wu submitted, created time 7 months 3 weeks (sciencenow.sciencemag.org)
Researchers have found that people with schizophrenia are far more likely than other people to have a certain type of error in their genes. Scientists believe the finding will help them develop new treatments for schizophrenia and identify young people at high risk of developing the disorder. 


Team Uncovers New Evidence of Recent Human Evolution
jane2007 submitted, created time 9 months 2 weeks (sciencenow.sciencemag.org)
By identifying 582 genes that have evolved differently in different populations in the past 60,000 years, including a dozen that protect people from obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and other diseases, researchers have found powerful new evidence of recent human evolution. 
"Normal" genes key to cancer growth
jane2007 submitted, created time 9 months 3 weeks (www.nature.com)
Geneticists have identified genes that are normally present and that seem to be key to the growth and survival of specific cancers. The finding, from a functional-genomics screen of human cells, could offer new drug targets for blitzing tumors. 


Drug addiction genes identified
sumsung submitted, created time 10 months 1 week (ca.reuters.com)
Scientists in China have identified about 400 genes that appear to make some people more easily addicted to drugs, opening the way for more effective therapies and addiction control. 
Human Evolution Is Speeding Up
Eric wu submitted, created time 11 months 1 week (sciencenow.sciencemag.org)
Plentiful food has made it easier than ever before to survive and reproduce in many parts of the world, so it's tempting to think that our species has stopped evolving. But a controversial new study says that isn't so. Far from slowing down, human evolution has sped up in the past 40,000 years and has become 100 times faster in the past 5000 years alone, according to the analysis. This means that even though some people have been globe-trotters who interbreed, most humans on different continents are becoming more different, rather than blending together into one genetically homogenous race. 


Inference of transcriptional regulation using gene expression data from the bovine and human genomes
abc01 submitted, created time 1 year 3 months (www.biomedcentral.com)
"Using promoter sequences from human genes is a useful approach when studying gene expression in species with limited or non-existing genomic sequence. As the bovine genome becomes better annotated it can in turn serve as the reference genome for other agriculturally important ruminants, such as sheep, goat and deer." 
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